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New Relic has a new UI and a few new cool features. Navigating your performance data is even easier, and new insight into your application is at your fingertips with new features like Key Transactions. You can identify which transactions are critical to your business, and build your own dashboards specific to those transactions, including performance data, topology maps, and service level agreement reports. You can even set notifications for Apdex scoring and other metric thresholds, so NewRelic reaches out when you want it to. Get it today by going to http://NewRelic.com

Ok, when we recorded the podcast, this didn't sound so much like a premature rails 4 announcement. This is an awesome - and growing - collection of news stories, blog entries, and even comment chains on github commits about the upcoming release of Rails 4.

The Government of Fukuoka, Japan, together with "Matz" Matsumoto, would like to invite you to enter the 2013 Fukuoka Ruby Competition. If you have developed Ruby programs within the past 12 months, this is the competition you've been waiting for.

If you've ever tried to spelunk through server logs trying to extract several page requests in a sequence, you're going to love Request Recorder. In short, you add it as rack middleware, add a query param to a url, and turn on session recording for the nuber of requests you specify.

At Velocity EU, Ilya Grigorik gave a talk about chrome devtools that became a runaway hit. He's released several videos based on that material. If you do web development, this can seriously up your game.

Previous Episodes

Today's Ruby5 goes BOOM! with some great advice from Joe Ferris on testing Javascript and not getting carried away with RSpec's DSL. Evan Light shows us the pitfalls of accepts_nested_attributes_for, some fat model refactoring, and more, more! MORE!

All about mocks, the end of ActiveRecord::Model, exceptionally handsome dashboards, getting Neat with Bourbon and SASS, hacking through the hurricane, cache digests, putting your gems in box, and Rake 10.0 in this episode of Ruby5.